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Piero Palacios

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Hi! My name is Piero, and I am a Biotechnologist from Peru 🇵🇪 🦙.

I have especializations in data analysis and bioinformatics from Harvard University and MIT.

I have a blog about bioinformatics aimed at people who are enthusiastic about this field.

TEACHING

Rstudio and Bioconductor


LANGUAGES

Spanish: Native

English: Intermediate

Disclaimer

This resume was made with the R package pagedown and datadrivencv.

Code available on GitHub.

Last updated on 2023-11-13. The most recent version of this resume is available here.

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Piero Palacios Bernuy

Professional Experience

Bioinformatician scientist

Rayca Precision

Remote

Current - 2023

  • Provide statistical computational tools for biologically based activities like genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and also gene sets analysis.
  • Analyze large molecular datasets like Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, microarray data, genomic sequence data, and also proteomics data for clinical or basic research purposes.
  • Develop new software applications or customize existing applications to meet specific project needs.

Consultancy for Statistical Support - Seed System / Agrobiodiversity / Timeline datasets

International Potato Center

Remote

Current - 2023

  • Conduct statistical analysis as agreed with the team.
  • Generate graphs, tables, and visuals to best represent results.
  • Contribute to science article development.

Bioinformatician intern

Rayca Precision

Remote

2023 - 2022

  • Develop & Deploy NGS data processing pipelines
  • Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns

Consultant

International Potato Center

Lima, PE

2019

  • Research, development, and improvement of an in vitro medium for the propagation of sweet potato compared with media used by the International Potato Centre
  • Experience in the area SO Conserving Biodiversity for the Future and procedures ISO17025.
  • Proposal of a new medium of cultivation to generate a better growth of the plants of sweet potato

Professional practitioner

International Potato Center

Lima, PE

2019 - 2018

  • Management and recovery of the collection in vitro “Low viability of sweet potato”
  • Responsible for training in botanical and physiological knowledge in order to strengthen the methodology of in vitro propagation.
  • Establishment of working methodologies and flowcharts for the management of the collection in vitro “Low viability of sweet potato”.

Education

B. Sc. Biotechnology

La Molina National Agrarian University

Lima, PE

2018 - 2012

  • Thesis: Impact of high temperature on coffee (Coffea arabica) transcriptome
  • Development of bioinformatics pipelines in HPC (High performance computing) for functional analysis of coffee transcriptome

Selected activities:

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

R

tidyverse

RMarkdown / Quarto

GitHub

Bioconductor

HPC

Python

Linux

Courses

Machine Learning with Python-From Linear Models to Deep Learning

MITx (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Remote

2023

Fundamentals of Statistics

MITx (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Remote

2022

Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

MITx (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Remote

2022

Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

MITx (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Remote

2021

Data analysis for Genomics

HARVARDx

Remote

2020

Advanced Bioconductor

HARVARDx

Remote

2020

Case studies in functional genomics

HARVARDx

Remote

2020

Introduction to Bioconductor

HARVARDx

Remote

2020

High-dimensional data analysis

HARVARDx

Remote

2020

Statistical Inference and Modeling for High Performance Experiments

HARVARDx

Remote

2020

Statistical analysis in bioinformatics

USMx (University System of Maryland)

Remote

2019